Quotes About Existence

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

If nobody had to die how would there be room enough for any of us who now live to have lived.

I just tell you, and though I don't sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there ain't any answer, there ain't going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

Whenever you get there, there is no there there.

Ma io avevo più letto libri che vissuto giorni, nel mio così fuggitivo, così inefficace passaggio lungo le strade degli uomini.

Una fuga, ha sido, una fuga. He corrido a través de la vida, sin entender nada de ella.

Death is a very important part of life.

All that is dead carries the echoes of life.

Happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure which man possesses.

Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.

Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.

To that creature, being born, Its birthday is a day to mourn

All is mystery except our pain.

So the peak of human knowledge or philosophy is to recognize its own uselessness—if man were still the same as he was in the beginning—and to undo the damage that it has done, and return man to the condition in which he would always have been if it had never existed.

Man for Leopardi is first and foremost an animal, and his history is merely the last section of the much more ancient history of all living species, which in their turn are an integral part of the entire ecological system.

Being asked for what purpose he thought men were bom, he laughingly replied: " To realise how much better it were not to be born.

Man is born by labor, [40] and birth itself means risking death.

As soon as the child is born, the mother who has just brought him into the world must console him, quiet his crying, and lighten the burden of the existence she has given him. And in truth it is only fitting that the good father and the good mother, in trying to console their children, correct as best they can, and ease, the damage they have done by procreating them. Good God! Why then is man born? And why does he procreate? To console those he has given birth to for having been born?

Les hommes, qui sont malheureux par essence, veulent croire qu'ils le sont par accident.

Amaro e noia la vita, altro mai nulla; e fango è il mondo.